Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your reference to Murphy's Law touches on only part of that ancient Irish potentate's laws. Tradition has it that Finn Cool Murphy was the prosperous sovereign of a happy people. He had charm, deep wisdom, was cultured and a poet. His set of the laws of life refer with circularity to nothing, everything and anything. They are: 1) nothing is as easy as it looks; 2) everything takes longer than you think it will; and 3) if anything can go wrong, it will...
Empty Nutshell. Inside the hotel, seated at a rectangular table covered with green baize, Stoph spoke first. In a one-hour speech, he demanded immediate West German recognition of the Communist German Democratic Republic as a separate and sovereign nation. That was not new, but he also added an old demand that West Germany thought had been abandoned: $27.3 billion in reparations for the 2,600,000 East Germans who fled to the West between 1949 and 1961, when the erection of the Berlin Wall cut escape routes...
...East Germans want West Germany to grant them full diplomatic recognition so that their part of Germany may take its place as a full-fledged sovereign nation in the world community. Brandt is willing to grant de jure recognition to East Germany-but with two important reservations. In accord with his formula of two German "states" within one "nation," he maintains that the Federal Republic will never regard the German Democratic Republic as a foreign country. He also holds that Germans of both countries will always share a common citizenship. Moreover, before he will consider granting diplomatic recognition to East...
Norway and Denmark were the first to pull out. A few days later, the U.S. declared that it still considered Britain the "lawful sovereign" in Rhodesia, and followed suit. Washington's undisguised snub precipitated a wholesale departure. Italy, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Austria and West Germany shut down; Switzerland wavered. Only South Africa and Portugal-both of which back Smith's regime-and Greece, which has an honorary consul there, were sure to remain...
...resigned 20 years later to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, he had moonlighted in wartime Washington as one of half a dozen key figures managing the development of the atomic bomb. While he never made the Cabinet, in 1955 he became the first American ambassador to the newly sovereign Bonn government. Before and since, he has sowed sensible, evolutionary ideas in U.S. education...